By: Shashi Tharoor According to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters, his overwhelming victory in India’s general elections was a sweeping repudiation of everything for which the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, led by the Indian National Congress, stood. Will

By: Raed Omari When it comes to writing an op-ed, one is mostly required to apply critical thinking, rather than to allow streams of highly emotive language to gush out. But in the case of the besieged Gaza Strip, this

By: Hisham Melhem Once again, Israel and Palestine are at war, or to be more precise Israel is waging war on the Hamas controlled Gaza strip. And once again the people of Gaza, the most densely populated territory in the

By: Brooklyn Middleton With no indication the most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas is de-escalating, physicians in Gaza warn that a protracted conflict would coincide with an existing medical supply shortage – significantly worsening the health care crisis in

By: Abdulrahman al-Rashed Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi accused Iran more than once of acting behind the turmoil in Yemen. He blamed Iran for the Houthi rebel’s recent seizure of the city of Omran, the gateway to the capital

By: Ceylan Ozbudak Since the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched Operation Protective Edge, a significant number of Palestinians have lost their lives. We have seen the images of a young girl mourning over the dead body of her fiancé, fathers

By: Yara al-Wazir The second that Israel waged its latest war on Gaza, my social media feeds waged war on the injustice happening there. I have been unable to avoid gruesome photographs and videos for days. I don’t know if

By: Seema Sengupta THE most sought after official document in India in the month of February is finally out in the open. Arun Jaitley, finance minister of the newly elected Narendra Modi government has presented his first budget in the

By: Heba Albeity King Abdullah Scholarships Program (KASP) has absolutely changed the demography of the Saudi society. According to statistics disclosed by Minister of Higher Education Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al-Angari during the graduation ceremony of the 4th group of

By: Linda Gradstein A cartoon that appeared in the daily newspaper Haaretz captured the feelings of many in Israel. A couple is sitting on the couch watching TV while on the news program an Israeli army commander is shown asking

By: Muddassar Ahmed This week is Remembering Srebrenica Week, which commemorates the loss of over 100,000 lives in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995, and more specifically the massacre of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica. Despite Srebrenica being

By: Ramzy Baroud As Iraq stands on the verge of a complete breakdown into mini sectarian states, former leading neoconservative and Iraq war advocate Richard Perle made a sudden appearance on Newsmax TV. His statements in the interview were yet

By: Dr. Azeem Ibrahim Here in the Middle East, the political situation seems to be getting ever more unstable. Between the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and new Israeli action against Gaza, the news gets

By: Amal Al-Sibai In addition to increased spiritual awareness and a higher level of faith, something else often goes up during Ramadan…… your weight. Ramadan is not to be blamed for the weight gain; it is due to our unhealthy

By: Mohammed Azhar Ali Khan In Ottawa on Canada Day, tens of thousands of Canadians and foreign tourists jammed Parliament Hill to sing, laugh, hear speeches, wave the flag and holler in delight as artists performed, planes flew overhead, the

By: Bikram Vohra Writers hacking cliches. Photographers snapping carbon copies. Admen reworking Black Books. Marketing chiefs sucking on the fumes of dried up think tanks. Bankers hiding behind computer printouts. Thousands of professionals, running on empty. All the passion spent,

By: Daoud Kuttab When three Israelis went missing three weeks ago, and before any evidence was made available, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided on his own to pin responsibility on the Islamist movement Hamas. He and his political and

By: Rajeev Sharma With the presentation of its maiden rail budget on Tuesday, the barely 45-day-old government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a sneak peek into its economic vision — a mix of selling dreams to 1.2 billion